sclamb
1058
Why my Squadra gained 24 seconds in 12 hours!.....
I thought I was going mad. My Squadra Hometime had been accurate to around 2-4 seconds per day which was fine. Then one day, I got home and it had gained 24 seconds in the space of 12 hours.
I took it to the AD to be checked and calibrated, and picked it back up today. The cause of the problem was that the watch was magnetized by the arch I walked through at the airport on the day it gained 24 seconds. Once it was demagnetized it went back down to +4 seconds, and it has now been calibrated further and has gained 1 second in the past 24 hours.
So, from now on I will only be passing my watches through the lower intensity scanner in a plastic tray. One odd thing is that my EWC has been through the arch a couple of times and is still running at a net accuracy of 0 seconds (not gaining or losing time at all!). I wonder if the titanium case makes a difference to minimise magnetizing, or whether the exposing of the HT movement in the sapphire glass made it more prone to the magnetic field.
Simon
Why my Squadra gained 24 seconds in 12 hours!.....
